I wanted to write to tell you how well I am feeling these days. It is awesome not to worry about a "thing" all the time (the general "c" worry is always there, but I don't think it will go away anyway soon). It is just nice that the liver worry is not occupying my mind all the time and I can start sweating the little stuff, like kids' colds, catching up my classes, doing the laundry..
I will see my oncologist this Thursday, so I am sure the anxiety level will going up on Wednesday (thank God I have a full load on Wednesdays from 9 am till 5 pm). It will be my first "3 month" check-up.
2 weeks ago everyone in the household got a haircut (yes including me), so when I have a good picture of us all I will post it. I have gotten a lot of comments on my hair, someone -who I had not seen for a while - looked at me and said "You got a hair cut!!!" yaaay, so it must not look like, I just had chemo and my hair is coming back :)
Anyway, gotta back to preparing our Sunday breakfast, love to you all!
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
MD Anderson radiologists agree with GJ radiologists
Yesterday, I heard back from MD Anderson. They basically said that the lesion in my liver was "too small and vague" to characterize, so recommended to have a follow-up MRI in three months. I will see my oncologist here next month, we'll see what she will suggest. But I am guessing that in March/April I will have another MRI.
Life is good. Our semester started this week. Today is my first day of classes. I LOVE my job. Both girls are sick at home with fever and upper respiratory infections. Thankfully my mom is still here so they could stay at home with her. I hope that by the end of the week everyone will be better and my mom will not have picked the bug up from them so she can travel well back to Istanbul.
I was feeling sick also, but with constant saline rinse of my sinuses and my chinese medication, I may have fought it off!!! If this cold does not turn into a sinus infection also, it will be amazing! I will have had 3 times where I could treat the nasal/sinus infections with saline without the need of antibiotics (those of you who know me well, also must know that I regularly get sinus infections ever year and end up taking bunch of antibiotics).
I also started a Tai Chi class. Interesting .... is all I am going to say for now, we'll see how I will like it.
Cheers everyone!
Life is good. Our semester started this week. Today is my first day of classes. I LOVE my job. Both girls are sick at home with fever and upper respiratory infections. Thankfully my mom is still here so they could stay at home with her. I hope that by the end of the week everyone will be better and my mom will not have picked the bug up from them so she can travel well back to Istanbul.
I was feeling sick also, but with constant saline rinse of my sinuses and my chinese medication, I may have fought it off!!! If this cold does not turn into a sinus infection also, it will be amazing! I will have had 3 times where I could treat the nasal/sinus infections with saline without the need of antibiotics (those of you who know me well, also must know that I regularly get sinus infections ever year and end up taking bunch of antibiotics).
I also started a Tai Chi class. Interesting .... is all I am going to say for now, we'll see how I will like it.
Cheers everyone!
Monday, January 9, 2012
Good news!
Got the report, they see the same lesion that the MD Anderson CT scan had shown, but they say that it is probably due to chemotherapy or biopsy. This is great news. As I learned MRI with and without contrast is the best way of visualizing livers and with this method they did not find anything that looks like metastatic disease!
Moreover they mention that the lesion that was observed back in October is mostly resolved and say that this is in agreement with a lesion that would have been caused by chemotherapy. The newly observed lesion could be a residuum of the original lesion or due to the biopsy I had to have.
So all is good. They do suggest another short-term follow up MRI to exclude metastatic disease - I do not know what short-term means, a week (probably not), a month (probably), or 3 months.. So we'll go through this again, but hopefully it won't be that stressful.
Tomorrow I will go in again, to get my port flushed! I had not had it done earlier because I had thought that the port would be out during the mastectomy - which I ended up postponing..
I know I had said that I was OK going through the weekend without news but the last 16 hours or so have been quite hard. Still (or rather because of that) I spent this morning at Ada's preschool volunteering. It was great. She was so happy to have me there and it was good for me to watch her in a different environment. It was our turn to bring snacks, so we brought pizza, and she served it to her friends, so cute! I am her mom so of course I will find that cute.
Thank you everyone for all the prayers, love, thoughts and hugs... I hope everyone has a fabulous week...
Moreover they mention that the lesion that was observed back in October is mostly resolved and say that this is in agreement with a lesion that would have been caused by chemotherapy. The newly observed lesion could be a residuum of the original lesion or due to the biopsy I had to have.
So all is good. They do suggest another short-term follow up MRI to exclude metastatic disease - I do not know what short-term means, a week (probably not), a month (probably), or 3 months.. So we'll go through this again, but hopefully it won't be that stressful.
Tomorrow I will go in again, to get my port flushed! I had not had it done earlier because I had thought that the port would be out during the mastectomy - which I ended up postponing..
I know I had said that I was OK going through the weekend without news but the last 16 hours or so have been quite hard. Still (or rather because of that) I spent this morning at Ada's preschool volunteering. It was great. She was so happy to have me there and it was good for me to watch her in a different environment. It was our turn to bring snacks, so we brought pizza, and she served it to her friends, so cute! I am her mom so of course I will find that cute.
Thank you everyone for all the prayers, love, thoughts and hugs... I hope everyone has a fabulous week...
Friday, January 6, 2012
Still no news
I had the MRI ysesterday morning, thought I would hear back from the dr today. But they are not working today so I will know on Monday.. I am fine with that. No news is good news..
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
MRI scheduled for tomorrow (Thursday)
Today i got the MRI scheduled, it will be tomorrow morning at 8:30am. I am hoping that I will get the results back by Friday. I will update as soon as I know more.
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